Reset your phone settings and reboot...that should help. It happened to me also a few times on iOS 6 where the battery was draining real fast...kind of 1% a minute even on standby. You can feel the phone is hot when it happens. Doing this fixed the issue.
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Very bad battery life
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Armen
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"Switch to Nexus 4 long time ago, so already put my SIM card on Nexus 4. Now trying to activate iPhone 4S with iOS 7 GM, it forces me to put SIM card in. This is so annoying! "
You made this BOLD statement how you LEFT the iPhone for the Nexus a LONG time ago as if you were never looking back and then magically yesterday you post this thread with a screenshot of that same iphone ACTIVATED.
Now you're calling me a fanboy because I called you out on it? 🙄
Did I ever said that I will never use iPhone again? Yes, I left iPhone for Nexus 4 long time ago, but HAVE I EVER SAID ONECE I won't use iPhone again?
I posted that thread on September 10th and it was September 18th. 8 days pass and you still think I can't get the SIM card off my Nexus 4? What is your logic here?
Let's be real. I did full restore last night as new without restore, turned of background refresh, turned of parallax effect, turned off Bluetooth. The battery still suck as I talk.
After I installed 7.0, I went through the settings and mimicked the exact settings I had on 6.1.1, I also turned off "background app refresh", which I don't need.
Battery life on my 4S seems excellent on 7.0. If not the same, better than iOS6. Then again I'm on day two of having it, so it might be too soon to tell. But it's definitely not draining any faster.
This is with a restore and fresh install of 7.0 over iTunes AND starting iPhone as new phone. No lag, no glitches, no battery drain.
Battery life on my 4S seems excellent on 7.0. If not the same, better than iOS6. Then again I'm on day two of having it, so it might be too soon to tell. But it's definitely not draining any faster.
This is with a restore and fresh install of 7.0 over iTunes AND starting iPhone as new phone. No lag, no glitches, no battery drain.
I'm really enjoying iOS 7 on my 4S and it's running nice and smooth, but it is SHREDDING my battery! I'm not losing any sleep over it right now because I plan to move to the 5S soon anyway, but it worries me that the 5S may wind up being just as crummy a battery life as the 4S has always been. I mean, I thought the 4S battery was bad before, but now I go from 100 to 55% in a matter of two hours of moderate usage. If I wasn't upgrading my phone anyway I'd be up in arms.
And yes, I will dig through the settings and look for a culprit, and blahblahblah, but generally I take offense to the whole "Well if you would just turn the brightness down, shut off location services, turn off notifications, never use maps, stop playing music, and never stream anything, then you'd be fine" type of rationalization. There's no reason to have such a fabulous phone if you have to turn all the features off to use it.
And yes, I will dig through the settings and look for a culprit, and blahblahblah, but generally I take offense to the whole "Well if you would just turn the brightness down, shut off location services, turn off notifications, never use maps, stop playing music, and never stream anything, then you'd be fine" type of rationalization. There's no reason to have such a fabulous phone if you have to turn all the features off to use it.
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I took my phone off the charger 6 hours ago. About an hour of calls, lots of iMessage and some safari browsing and other apps. Plus the general - playing around because its new. I still have 81%. Verizon iPhone 5.
The average US Emergency Room visit wait is 6 hours, so once again you guys beat us in healthcare!
LOL.... Sure.... Our Emergency Room visit wait can be take half days depends on your condition
Since I've been home (with a decent WiFi connection and better network signal), battery life has been fine.
I have turned a few things off, but wonder if the problem earlier was mainly because of a spotty signal.
I have turned a few things off, but wonder if the problem earlier was mainly because of a spotty signal.
Goaliegeek
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Try turning off Background App Refresh. Settings~General~Background App Refresh. Off or deselect certain apps.
Actually seems quite terrible, and on par with what I'm experiencing. This is not impressive.
my 4S battery life has been pretty awful since updating. first did the OTA yesterday and it seemed to drain about twice as quick as with iOS 6 with average Twitter/SMS/Music usage. then did a clean install last night and set it up as a new iPhone, and still barely getting half a day of battery. brightness is modest, push email is off, bluetooth off, still wallpaper, etc. I just turned the parallax off to see if that helps.
I remember this happening with the new iOS 6 though, so hopefully 7.0.1 (or whatever it is) comes out soon and helps those with battery issues.
I remember this happening with the new iOS 6 though, so hopefully 7.0.1 (or whatever it is) comes out soon and helps those with battery issues.
..aaaaaand my 4S on iOS 7 just died at 19%. So it's even worse than I thought in terms of battery life. Lordy.
That's brutal!
OP, I can relate similarly... while in hospital waiting for and recovering from appendix rupture surgery (miserable two days), Fido/Rogers had data outage, so I couldn't use my 6GB of data at all.